CES: Griffin Twenty makes your speakers wireless

Griffin demos its new Twenty audio amplifier, which uses AirPort Express to allow connected speakers to play music wirelessly from any AirPlay-enabled iOS device.

Griffin Technology showed us its new Twenty audio amplifier at CES Unveiled last night. The device uses AirPort Express to allow connected speakers to play music wirelessly from any AirPlay-enabled iOS device.

The Twenty's name comes from the fact that it's rated at 20W per speaker. It's a 2.1-channel system, and also supplies power. It has a frequency response of 20Hz-20kHz, and signal-to-noise ratio of 95dB.

The device streams Apple Lossless sound from AirpPlay-enabled sources, so the sound quality should be good.

The Griffin Twenty being shown off. Apologies for the quality of photography...

A view of the Griffin Twenty's inputs

Griffin also demonstrated the StudioConnect, a product for connecting musical instruments to an iPad, helping musicians to compose tracks on GarageBand. StudioConnect will launch in spring. Griffin said it will retail for around $150; UK launch details are not yet available, although the firm assured us it will launch in our neck of the woods in due course.